Sinatra's Kid Flips Out Over Ceremonial Rifle Presentation at CPAC

By Bob Owens | 1:11 PM | March 07, 2014

MSNBC’s newest failure, Ronan Farrow, is beside himself that Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) presented a ceremonial ~~flintlock~~ percussion rifle to Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) on stage at CPAC Thursday.

Skip ahead to the 2:30 mark where he tries to grill Republican National Committee spokesman Sean Spicer about the presentation.

I think Mediaite’s Noah Rothman called the RNC’s play here perfectly.

If the RNC was in an enterprising mood, they would cut this mix of confusion and revulsion displayed by MSNBC and Farrow into a web-ad to run in every red state where Democratic Senate incumbents are fighting against the tide public opinion in their effort to seek reelection. This was nothing short of embarrassing.

Update: Rifle in question is a percussion rifle, not a flintlock as noted by several commenters. Mediaite’s description was inaccurate, and I failed to double-check it. My bad.

Bob Owens is the Editor of BearingArms.com. Bob is a graduate of roughly 400 hours of professional firearms training classes, including square range and force-on force work with handguns and carbines. He is a past volunteer instructor with Project Appleseed. He most recently received his Vehicle Close Quarters Combat Instructor certification from Centrifuge Training, and is the author of the short e-book, So You Want to Own a Gun. He can be found on Twitter at bob_owens.